SAS delivers online curriculum resources with a proven impact on increasing student learning and teacher effectiveness. Lessons, activities, tutorials, and interactive tools are available in all disciplines for students in grades 6-12. This resource encourages active, collaborative and cooperative learning that challenges students to become critical thinkers. The innovative approach of doing, seeing and listening encourages insights that conventional methods cannot.
Benefits:
Targets higher-order thinking skills
Integrates content and technology into the classroom at no cost to educators
Employs a learner-centered approach
Integrates various instructional strategies
Incorporates formative as well as summative assessments
Provides eco-friendly delivery and content
Features:
Interactive Tools
Inquiries
Web Lessons
Audio Tutorials
Core Disciplines
Science Virtual labs clarify concepts in unique ways that provide a practical means of instruction. Interactive materials enable students to visualize processes that occur on a micro-scale or understand interactions on a macro-scale.
Math Students can visualize key concepts and practice fundamental skills. Use of the interactive features, animations and immediate feedback can mean the difference between comprehension and confusion. Algebra modules align with the Common Core Essential Standards.
English/Language Arts The audio and video material enhances reading comprehension and writing proficiency including everything from essay organization to sentence structure and punctuation. The writing reviser is an award winning tool which helps students ask the kind of questions experienced writers ask automatically. In the process, students develop the judgment that is essential to effective writing.
Social Studies A unique case study approach encourages critical thinking about complex issues. Audio and video stimulate interest and encourage rigorous scholarships, and an interactive tool helps students analyze documents as well as write more effectively.
Spanish Students enhance reading, listening and writing skills by immersing themselves in practical situations and in specific cultural contexts.
In the era of increasing accountability, Curriculum Pathways enable the teacher to see how the lessons relate to the standards. All lessons have measurable outcomes which require students to apply, evaluate or synthesize information.
Overview:
SAS delivers online curriculum resources with a proven impact on increasing student learning and teacher effectiveness. Lessons, activities, tutorials, and interactive tools are available in all disciplines for students in grades 6-12. This resource encourages active, collaborative and cooperative learning that challenges students to become critical thinkers. The innovative approach of doing, seeing and listening encourages insights that conventional methods cannot.
Benefits:
Features:
Science
Virtual labs clarify concepts in unique ways that provide a practical means of instruction. Interactive materials enable students to visualize processes that occur on a micro-scale or understand interactions on a macro-scale.
Math
Students can visualize key concepts and practice fundamental skills. Use of the interactive features, animations and immediate feedback can mean the difference between comprehension and confusion. Algebra modules align with the Common Core Essential Standards.
English/Language Arts
The audio and video material enhances reading comprehension and writing proficiency including everything from essay organization to sentence structure and punctuation. The writing reviser is an award winning tool which helps students ask the kind of questions experienced writers ask automatically. In the process, students develop the judgment that is essential to effective writing.
Social Studies
A unique case study approach encourages critical thinking about complex issues. Audio and video stimulate interest and encourage rigorous scholarships, and an interactive tool helps students analyze documents as well as write more effectively.
Spanish
Students enhance reading, listening and writing skills by immersing themselves in practical situations and in specific cultural contexts.
In the era of increasing accountability, Curriculum Pathways enable the teacher to see how the lessons relate to the standards. All lessons have measurable outcomes which require students to apply, evaluate or synthesize information.
Adapted from: http://www.sascurriculumpathways.com
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